Windows 10: Necessary C drive partitions?

My Windows 11 notebook has two partitions.EFI system. 260 MB. This is 100% empty. I understand this is necessary for some tasks. Is 260 MB the necessary size, or can it be smaller?Recovery partition. 671 Mb. This is also 100% empty, presumably because I have system protection turned off. Is this where restore points are stored? Can I skip system protection, and use external drive protection instead? Then delete the partition?I bought my PC with too small a SSD 125Gb, and it's almost full. A few massive apps are hogging so much space but I need them. Adobe, Acronis True Image, iT

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Unallocated Space to C Drive

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Partitioning of C Drive

I have 210 GB free space with a C drive of 251 GB. I have been trying to create a separate partition of 100 GB and 151 GB will be left on C drive. I find that shrink volume is only 1.50 GB. Pease help me if it is possible to partition and what steps do I need to follow. Thanks.

Purshotam